The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-07

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NEW YORK, April 4.-The Brooklyn
Court of Sessions to-day was the scene
Of an exciting episode. Burglar Will
liam Henry, alias Cunningham, was
brought up for sentence fer the crime
upon which he was convicted last week
Of attempted burglary at private res
idence. Judge Moore told the prisoner
he was lone of those desperate thieves
from the West" mo am not" re-
piled the prisoner, ''and it is an out
rage to put that on me-" He handed
up letter to prove that he was not the
Cunningham from the West. The
Judge declined to accept the explana-
tion whereupon the man made an indie
cent remark. Henry started up to at
tack the court, and proceeded as far as
the iron gate when four court officers
caught him. The melee caused most
Of the jury to seize their hats and leave
the box. The prisoner threatened to
get even" with the Judge and Jury.
Judge Moore sentenced him to ten
years in Sing Sing, five years on the
charge OF burglary, and five years for
resisting arrest.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
KANSAS CITY, April ga special to
the Times from Vinita, l. T., says: A
terrible explosion occurred to-day at
Savannah, and coal shaft No. 2, by
cuing party was soon organized and
sent down into the mine, but the men
were overpowered by gas, and twelve
were suffOcated before they could be
taken out, making eighteen dead in all.
The mines are worked mainly by for
eigners and most of the victims are
Italians. Fuller particulars have not
yet been learned here.
SCHOONER SUNK.
hocu AnFil An mn
known large two masted schooner ran
between Nantucket and Hyannis, dur
ing the storm Saturday and sank, only
the mastheadS being visible from shore.
A boat was sent to her rescue yeSter-
day afternoon, but the vessels crew
was not found. They are supposed to
have been lost.
ARGUMENT HEARD.
New. YORK, April Recorder
| Smyth, in the general sessions to-day,
heard an argument ON the motion by
Counsellor J. B. Hart, of San Francisco,
to have nolle prosequi entered on the
indictment for forgery on file in the
District Attorneys Office against VIII
liam Kissane, now a wealthy and in
| fiuential citizen of San francisco
| The indictment was for forgery of 3
| check for Sl2, 900 in 1854, against the
Chemical Bank, of this city. Counsel
lor Jones appeared for the bank and
opposed the motion. He said Kissant
had not made any restitution to the
bank 6Stainad for in the cT %Onsy m Thg'
ner; although it appeared h,
was we'll to do. Jones submitted al
affldavit made by the cashier of tn,
bank which set forth that the bank haG
suffered a loss of S26, $50 by Kissane'
forgeries. District Attorney Martil
favored dismissing the indictment
considering the length of time elapse'
and that Kissane had reformed an
was leading an honest Gfe.. Recorde
/, matter. He'said there was no evidenc
that Lawyer Hart was acting wit
Kissane's consent and intimated tina
: he would require assurances on thi
point before taking action. AtelegraI
from the principal in the case woul
not be sufficient. The parties then LEI
: the court.
ST.. LOUIS, April IA special to III
Post Dispatch from San Francisco say
concerning the Kissane sensation: III
identity is said to be known to sever;
= newspaper proprietors, and it is allegt
that an agreement has been made n
, to publish the name of the suspectC
man. Some of the most prominel
papers make no mention of the sto
y at all, though the matter is a geneT
subject of conversation and much su
~ prise. 1t is urged that many men he
have something in their past recon
that would not bear the light of d.
and so Kissane has right to be pI
. tected. The assertion is made that t
as man Is a resident of Oakland and "A W
Id known lawyer engaged in busine:
:. Some of his associates have known I
years that he was living under an
ne sumed name.
as SHIFTING THE CHARGE.
II SIOUX CITY. Ia, April 1.-The I
,r- Tense in the HaddOck trial are layi
!" the foundation of plot charging lie;
a TT with the act of murder. Witnes.